Frederick Tolles
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Frederick Barnes Tolles was Director of Friends Historical Library from 1951-1970, and a member of the Department of History at Swarthmore College. He graduated from Harvard in 1936, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and took Honors in English with his thesis on Emerson and Quakerism. He received his Masters degree from Harvard in 1937 and taught in the English Department at Harvard University until 1941. He came to Swarthmore College as Librarian of Friends Historical Library in 1941 and was named Director of the Library in 1951. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1947.
